[Elecraft] ESSB Works Well

[Brett Howard]

All one has to do is set it up as a PF1/2 or M1-4 hotkey and then they
can turn it on/off...

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 02:03 -0700, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
> 
> W7GJ, Lance wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I am very curious about this ESSB mode....I am getting my K3 in a few
> > weeks, and 
> > wonder what it sounds like with a normal SSB receiver using something like
> > 2.8 KHz 
> > filter.  Does it sound better/worse/distorted?  Or can you hear no
> > difference unless 
> > you have a wider receive filter?  Since most people just have standard SSB
> > filters, I 
> > am curious to know if you can use the mode with others, or only with
> > ESSB-equipped 
> > stations.  TNX and VY 73, Lance
> > 
> > 
> 
> They would not hear much difference, but they will probably be able to hear
> some in an A/B comparison, because their filter does not cut off absolutely
> at 2.7KHz or whatever, so some of the extra information will get through.
> 
> But you will be wasting power generating frequencies that are more or less
> wasted on the station you are working, and which could be causing QRM or
> simply taking up space that someone else could be using. In my opinion, it's
> only appropriate to use ESSB when you know that the other station is also
> equipped to receive it, on a band that is quiet enough that the wider signal
> is not preventing someone else from having a QSO. From that standpoint, it
> is a pity that it has to be enabled or disabled by going into the CONFIG
> menu, because that seems to imply that it is a setting that people will
> either use most of the time or not use at all, rather than something you
> enable (perhaps using MODE ALT) for a particular contact when circumstances
> permit, and then turn off when that contact has ended.
> 
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